Gabe Newell History Brief Overview Gabe Newell is currently the CEO of a company called Valve, he has a NET worth of 4.1 billion dollars (as of 2017) and has come to mass popularity for his games and the memes and jokes surrounding him, his online game service Steam and discounts that always happen, and the want for a sequel called Half-Life 3. But let us start at the beginning, Gabe Newell was born on November 3rd, 1962, he went to Harvard from 1980 to 1983, he then dropped out to work at Microsoft where he then worked on Windows version 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. Soon he was inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to create the game Quake and id software. Gabe and Mike Harrington then founded the company found Valve in 1996, and they then funded the company themselves to create the games Half-Life and GoldSrc. He then worked on the game Half-Life 2, but in the background, he worked on the game service Steam. Afterward, his company continued to innovate and create games such as Portal, Portal 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota, Dota 2, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and much more. He has had so much success over the past 34 years, more success than most company's combined. Now not only is his company famous for their games, they have also branched out to make hardware such as the Steam Controller and the HTC Vive. Images & Videos
Brief Overview
Gabe Newell is currently the CEO of a company called Valve, he has a NET worth of 4.1 billion dollars (as of 2017) and has come to mass popularity for his games and the memes and jokes surrounding him, his online game service Steam and discounts that always happen, and the want for a sequel called Half-Life 3. But let us start at the beginning, Gabe Newell was born on November 3rd, 1962, he went to Harvard from 1980 to 1983, he then dropped out to work at Microsoft where he then worked on Windows version 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. Soon he was inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to create the game Quake and id software. Gabe and Mike Harrington then founded the company found Valve in 1996, and they then funded the company themselves to create the games Half-Life and GoldSrc. He then worked on the game Half-Life 2, but in the background, he worked on the game service Steam. Afterward, his company continued to innovate and create games such as Portal, Portal 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota, Dota 2, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and much more. He has had so much success over the past 34 years, more success than most company's combined. Now not only is his company famous for their games, they have also branched out to make hardware such as the Steam Controller and the HTC Vive.
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Referenceshttp://www.idsoftware.com/en-us
http://www.valvesoftware.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Controller
https://www.vive.com/ca/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell
Question: What were Valve's first games?